Summary Of Laurie Halse Anderson's Fever 1793

In the novel Fever, 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson there is a lot of conflicts. I believe conflict is a situation or problem that one character or more are facing. These conflicts are the struggles of the fever, having to deal with the Ogilvies, and Mattie facing herself. Mattie’s perseverance while facing the challenges of getting through the fever, facing the Ogilvies, and facing herself and her doubts helped lead her from childhood to adulthood.

“Inoculation”, a short poem written by Susan Donnelly, follows a slave master, Cotton Mather, and his slave, Onesimus, as the two men speak about smallpox which Mather has “studied for a while”. As Mather’s question of “if he'd (Onesimus) ever had the pox” was seemed to be clearly referring to the disease that killed several people in Boston of 1776 at first, Onesimus brought the question under a new light by answering “yes and no” depicting that he once had smallpox but at the same time he did not have it, a notion which he later explained. Showing his confusion to Onesimus’s answer, Mather replied, “Consider how a man can take inside all manner of disease and still survive." Instead of answering with a simple yes or no, Onesimus connected

Laurie Halse Anderson’s historical fiction novel , Fever 1793, takes place in Philadelphia. Mattie goes throughout the city wondering where everyone is after yellow fever has spread. Then she finds a little girl that will help her with walking around and trying to stay calm. By using emotions and character development, Anderson creates the lesson that when you have someone special in your life, you should never take them for granted.

When students are bullied, they are encouraged to speak up about it to a teacher or some other adult; however, many do not, because they may think their cases are not important enough to be told, because no one will believe their stories, or because they are embarrassed by what happened. As these cases turn from simple bullying to a more severe event, this inability to speak up only increases. Laurie Halse Anderson shows this effect with being raped, as well as the emotional damage that goes with it. Through Melinda’s experiences in Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson’s writing reflects the time in which it was written, her views on teens and the adolescent years, and her early life.

Chapter One of of Jim Murphy’s book, An American Plague, opens with the quote, ‘About this time, this destroying scourge, the malignant fever, crept in among us” (Murphy 1). This quote is accredited to Mathew Carey in November, 1793. The term scourge is defined as, “a person or thing that cause great trouble of suffering,” and the term malignant is defined as, “tending to produce death or deterioration.” These are very strong terms with extremely negative connotative meanings. The figurative language which is evident in the quote at the opening of Chapter One is personification. Carey’s quote give yellow fever an eerie, human-like quality when he writes, “the destroying scourge, the malignant fever, CREPT in among us” (Murphy 1). CArey’s word choices and use of personification help to create a powerful image in the reader’s mind of the threat looming over the city of Philadelphia.\

In the historical fiction novel, Fever 1793, the citizens of Philadelphia face a great deal of problems. They were confronted by the horrid disease, Yellow Fever. They faced robbers in their homes. They faced starvation. They were trapped in a situation with only one real cure-frost. The only problem was, it was summer, and frost didn’t come until winter. This story focuses on Matilda Cook, or Mattie for short, and how she encountered all of the dangers that were listed. Mattie had no idea what was about to change her life forever.

The setting and plot are rather historically accurate and reflect the events of the time period. For example, a yellow fever strain hit Philadelphia in the year 1793 in August. As well as date accuracy, many of the people mentioned were alive at the time. This includes people like, Benjamin Rush, Jean-Pierre Blanchard and George Washington. References to the Free African Society are correct too. The FAS was founded in Philadelphia and actually did help victims of the yellow fever. The last historical accuracy was the hospital at Bush Hill.

List two main points discussed in “Typhoid Fever.” What was the story about? What should a reader take from the story?

The 1878 yellow fever epidemic in Memphis proved to be fatal, killing almost all who got infected. The disease traveled up from New Orleans infecting and killing many on its way. Memphis was going through reconstruction and was becoming the center for merchants and travelers. Furthermore, Memphis began to become overly populated only increasing the devastation that would be caused by the yellow fever. This was a confusing period were even medical professionals did not know where the disease came from or how they could to stop it. The epidemic caused panic and challenged the state government of Tennessee and made changes to it that are still in effect today.

Laurie Halse Anderson’s historical fiction novel Fever 1793 takes place in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when the Yellow Fever epidemic is flooding through the city. The novel is focused around Matilda or as she is called in the book Mattie Cook, and her family. Mattie is faced with many difficulties throughout the novel, including sickness, death, loss, and learning how to be independent. By using personification and descriptive word Anderson creates the theme that fear can cause people to mature or act differently in situations. At the start of the sickness spreading, (pages 68-69 ) Mattie’s mother Lucile is sick in bed with, what they were told was “just a virus”.

Nikolette Domann Domann 1 Mr. Bills 27 February, 2017 Pain and Suffering in “Fever 1793” In today's world, although sickness is still around, it's more contained because we have advances in technology. Worrying about getting sick, isn't a problem as much as it used to be. Yet when illness and disease struck Philadelphia in 1793. Mattie Cook struggles to stay happy in a universe full of sadness.

Suffering happens in many places of the world today.People are suffering from starvation or health issues.In Fever 1793 by, Laurie Halse Anderson, the author illustrates of things going wrong during a time of need.In this story there is a fourteen year old named Mattie Cook, who has a family of 3.She begins to suffer during the time of the fever in Philadelphia, such as when her friend polly died and her mother became ill, when she gets the fever and grandfather dies, and when Eliza’s 2 nephews and Nell get the fever.This story suggests that during a time of suffering, the more help we give the more responsible we become.

The true and terrifying story of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. while i was reading an american plug i found a interesting detail about a way to make the sickness go way. They thought that the smell of burning gunpowder would drive the sickness a way. They would wipe the walls with white vinegar to make the illnesses go away cause the smell was very bitter they thought that the sickness would not like it . So they thought it would drive the sickness.

Crosby introduces the novel by detailing the plague seemingly at its worst level. The symptoms of the fever are described,

Mania, delirium, hysteria, and fear are words that can be used to describe the events that took place within Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year. The citizens of London were being attacked by an unknown biological enemy. The faceless opponent in which they would be afflicted is a plague that rattled their very foundation. Fear had begun to consume people mentally as well as the obvious physical affliction. Defoe utilizes both first person point of view and eye witness accounts to describe the severity of the plague. Defoe himself was only a child during the events of the plague, but recounts the story as one H.F.